If the next strategy meeting or brainstorming session looms just around the corner, and once again you`re dreading the enormous documents you`ll have to wade through and the well-worn spiel you`ll have to sit through, why not investigate visualisation as an alternative?

Visualisation entails capturing themes in pictures, helping to extract ideas from team members and explaining concepts in a way that everyone can appreciate.

“People get bored with sitting through a Powerpoint presentation that`s just been warmed up in the oven – and hardly anyone will be able to get past page 40 of a massive written document,” says Barry Brady, MD of a new visualisation company.